Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.16.MISMATCH!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!v33g2000prn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: rusi Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Can you advice a Python library to query a lan subnet with SNMP and collect MAC addresses of nodes? Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.73.35.230 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1303015088 9765 127.0.0.1 (17 Apr 2011 04:38:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v33g2000prn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.73.35.230; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:3372 On Apr 15, 3:22=A0pm, Aldo Ceccarelli wrote: > On 15 Apr, 11:54, frankcui wrote: > > > > > On 04/15/2011 05:00 PM, Aldo Ceccarelli wrote:> Hello All, > > > in my specific problem I will be happy of a response where possible > > > to: > > > > 1. distinguish different operating systems of answering nodes > > > 2. collect responses of Wyse thin-clients with "Thin OS" to get node > > > name and MAC address in particular > > > > Thanks a lot in advance for any sharing / forward to documentation, > > > products in the area. > > > > KR Aldo > > > I think for your interest, if what you described is not a part of your > > software you are doing but only a specific task, you could use some > > network scanning tools like nmap to achieve your goals. > > > there is also a module called pysnmp and you can look into it to see if > > it meets your need. > > > frank > > Thanks Frank! I've browsed pysnmp as you kindly adviced, now looking > also intohttp://pynetsnmp.sourceforge.net/ > KR Aldo This is 6-7 year old stale memory (and dont want to start a flame war but...) Last I looked at the snmp modules in python I vaguely remember that the perl modules were so much more feature complete that I had to switch to perl even though I am generally uncomfortable with perl.